What? Hey, you talkin' to ME?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Michael Geilich <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Clearly not talking about people who burn their ears out with loud
> amplifiers.
> They call themselves musicians too.
>
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:19 AM, John Erickson wrote:
>
> > Willy requested that I post a link to this story: "Can Music
> > Experience Improve Older Adults' Hearing?" (Northwestern University
> > Newscenter) <http://bit.ly/nyib8l>
> >
> > Can Music Experience Improve Older Adults' Hearing?
> > Older musicians excel in memory and hearing speech in noise compared
> > to non-musicians
> > By Wendy Leopold (May 11, 2011)
> >
> > EVANSTON, Ill. --- A growing body of research finds musical training
> > gives students learning advantages in the classroom. Now a
> > Northwestern University study finds musical training can benefit
> > Grandma, too, by offsetting some of the deleterious effects of aging.
> >
> > “Lifelong musical training appears to confer advantages in at least
> > two important functions known to decline with age -- memory and the
> > ability to hear speech in noise,” says Nina Kraus, director of the
> > Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory and co-author of the study in the May
> > 11 issue of the online science journal PLoS One.
> >
> > Co-written by Northwestern researchers Alexandra Parbery-Clark, Dana
> > Strait, Samira Anderson, Emily Hittner and Kraus, “Musical Experience
> > and the Aging Auditory System” finds that -- when compared to their
> > non-musician counterparts -- musicians 45- to 65-years-old excel in
> > auditory memory and the ability to hear speech in noisy
> > environments...
> >
> > (more at link above)
> >
> > =========
> >
> > The citation for the work is: Parbery-Clark A, Strait DL, Anderson S,
> > Hittner E, Kraus N. (2011) "Musical Experience and the Aging Auditory
> > System: Implications for Cognitive Abilities and Hearing Speech in
> > Noise." PLoS ONE 6(5): e18082. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018082
> > <http://bit.ly/nwWQof>
> >
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